Digital technologies and cultures constitute what is possibly the greatest driver in our perception of time. Ubiquity, non-linearity, moving across time-zones, synchronicity, achronicity, simultaneity, asynchronicity, atemporality: all of these and more are phenomena which are driven to extremes by technologies and networks.

On top of that, the “ubiquitous diaries” which are composed by the algorithms which watch our every move, as they appear in the infosphere through our expressions on social networks, the ways in which we use devices, make transactions, and in many other conscious and unconscious ways, constitute to all effects our “auto-biographies”. Auto in two ways: because we produce them ourselves through our actions, and because they are produced automatically, as interpreted by algorithms, whether we want it or not.

The GhostWriter is, like ordinary, human, ghostwriters, the writer of our autobiographies: the non-human interprets the human and writes it down, producing a new form of publication, and augmented book.

About the exhibit

In collaboration with the Department oh Art History at Sapienza University in Rome. Promoted by Roma Capitale – Soprintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali, and with the contribution of Bulgari.

The path through the exhibit:

The paintings, videos, photographs, loose sheets of paper, notebooks, sounds, embroideries and installations by the artists on show suggest a continuous play with “today”. The following themes emerge from their disposition:

The exhibit will include performances, lectures, roundtables, meeting with the artists and more. Check the program at the MACRO Museum for more info, and on AOS for updates about the initiatives in the show which relate to GhostWriter.

Art is Open Source

AOS, Art is Open Source, is an international informal network exploring the mutation of human beings with the wide and ubiquitous accessibility and availability of digital technologies and networks.
We move across arts and sciences, using technology, communication, performance, art and design, to instantiate emotional actions and processes that are able to expose the dynamics of our contemporary world.
We do this in academic, artistic, business and activist domains and, actually, we are focused on moving fluidly among each of these spaces.

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